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Unlearn OOP (if you want to learn FP)

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November 29, 2019
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Unlearn OOP (if you want to learn FP)

Keynote at the Italian Kolin Community Conference 2019

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Uberto Barbini

November 29, 2019

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Transcript

  1. Unlearn Object Oriented Programming (if you want to learn Functional

    Programming) Uberto Barbini ramtop @

  2. When I was a kid I wanted to become a

    Naturalist

  3. I kept reading books about Natural Sciences

  4. I kept reading books about Natural Sciences

  5. I kept reading books about Natural Sciences

  6. Classification was simple...

  7. Then Cladistic arrived... Common ancestors

  8. And birds became dinosaurs!

  9. We are all fish, technically

  10. Scientists are humans...

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  12. https://pixabay.com/users/endriqstudio-13819715/ https://pixabay.com/users/endriqstudio-13819715/

  13. It’s not easy to Unlearn

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  15. https://pixabay.com/users/sasint-3639875/ https://pixabay.com/users/sasint-3639875/ Object Oriented vs Functional

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  22. Thou Shalt Have No Manager Class

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  28. Credits https://pixabay.com/users/sasint-3639875/ Credits https://pixabay.com/users/sasint-3639875/ The Elephant in the room

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  30. Object-Oriented Functional

  31. Url Shortener

  32. Url Shortener

  33. Unlearn What seems What seems wrong wrong but it’s but

    it’s right right? ? What seems What seems right right but it’s but it’s wrong wrong? ?
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  35. Well Defined Types

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  37. Generics are Type builders

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  39. Anemic Objects Immutable Data

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  41. Don’t use Exceptions as result

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  43. Side effects should be left out

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  45. Function types instead of Interfaces

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  47. Which Language or Library should I use?

  48. The ones that spark joy!

  49. Where should I start in an existing Legacy Project?

  50. https://pixabay.com/users/1588877-1588877/ Small changes

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  52. Unlearn is difficult Functional Programming is made of Arrows Look

    at your code with new eyes (plus we are fish)

  53. Excuses to avoid learning FP: It’s just a bunch of

    funny words I don’t have time What’s the point?

  54. Tell me your Questions! Uberto Barbini @ramtop Blog https://medium.com/@ramtop Book:

    https://tinyurl.com/funkotlinbook